thrist

thrist

1. Obsolete form of thirst.[1]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 17, page 261:

     Who ſhall him rew, that ſwimming in the maine, / Will die for thriſt, and water doth refuſe? / Refuſe ſuch fruitleſſe toile, and preſent pleaſures chuſe.

thrist (third-person singular simple present thrists, present participle thristing, simple past and past participle thristed)

1. Obsolete form of thirst.

• T-shirt, t-shirt, thirst

thrist

1. Aspirate mutation of trist (“sad”).

From Middle English trist, from Old Norse traust.

thrist

1. trust

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 72